Paratroopers and artillerymen at front will receive tractor-trailers, mobile car repair shops along with bath and laundry facilities. PHOTO
Petro Poroshenko is bringing a large batch of equipment worth more than UAH 10 million to frontline. Part of this aid for military was financed by European Solidarity party.
This was reported by Censor.NET with reference to the EU press service.
Paratroopers, artillerymen and soldiers of the presidential brigade were provided with powerful tractors, mobile car repair shops and bath and laundry facilities.
According to the EU leader, 175 of the contracted three hundred British DAF Leyland trucks are already in service. "These vehicles are going to the 132nd reconnaissance battalion of the Air Assault Forces," Poroshenko said.
"These car repair shops, which are so much needed at the front, are going to the presidential brigade. A significant part of the brigade's battalions are at the front, and they really need it," Poroshenko said.
And powerful tractors with manipulators are going to the artillery - they will haul containers with shells.
"These are new DAF trucks that we import from Europe - the Netherlands, Belgium - from NATO warehouses. There is a hydraulic platform, there are manipulators to easily and quickly load pallets with 155 mm shells," Poroshenko said, adding that all five tractors are going to the 148th Artillery Brigade.
"And there is one more feature: these DAFs were purchased, among other things, at the expense of the European Solidarity party. I want to thank the party members, because the party spent this money not on PR, not on paving, not on TV shows, but on purchasing this batch of vehicles for the Ukrainian military together with Sprava Hromadas and the Poroshenko Foundation," the politician said.
"And six bath and laundry complexes. In total, 70 battalions of the Armed Forces have already received such necessary facilities. Here, the soldiers can wash their uniforms, take a shower, raise their spirits and morale," Poroshenko said, adding that all this equipment is already being sent to the frontline, and the equipment will begin its service in the Armed Forces.
